Example Sentences

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I am defying the doctor in letting you go like this, upon my own responsibility.

From The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

But I still think of my father, whose commands I am defying and that against every convention and all laws.

From Eastern Shame Girl by Souli, Charles Georges